Lee K Abbott

Abbott received bachelor's and master's degrees from New Mexico State University. After studying at Columbia College, he earned his Master's of Fine Arts from the University of Arkansas in 1977. In addition to lecturing on the art of fiction writing, Abbott has taught at several colleges, including Case Western Reserve University, Colorado College, Washington University, and Rice University. He is currently a Humanities Distinguished Professor in English at Ohio State University's main campus in Columbus, Ohio.

The Gateway (2007)T M McNally"Lordy, what a wickedly wise writer T. M. McNally is. The Gateway is a terrific book, impatient and wrought up, a book that goes a long way toward answering this age-old question: Why do fools fall in love? Here are seven answers, each beguiling and break-neck and bedeviling."